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Re:I Love Go; I Hate Go by millstone on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @02:49AM (#12208206)
Oftentimes when I write in Go, I'll produce an unused variable as a side effect of commenting out code as a debugging experiment. What would you think about Go issuing a warning instead of an error in this case?

Also, if goimports solves import issues, why isn't it just built into the compiler?

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Re:I Love Go; I Hate Go by tptacek on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @02:52AM (#12208213)
It doesn't work as a language feature, because it's not precise or perfect. Package references can be ambiguous, and need to be overridden. It works extremely well as a tool though.
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Re:I Love Go; I Hate Go by xyproto on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @05:05AM (#12208635)
This is a problem specifically about commenting in and out code. The IDE should comment in and out imports accordingly.
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